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Clayton Eshleman, editor and translator of the Artaud anthology Watchfiends and Rack Screams (Exact Change, 1995), presents the life and work of the French poet and playwright, focusing on his 9 year asylum incarceration. The presentation will include slides of Artaud's drawings and a recording of him performing a radio poem

Presentation and discussion with Patricia Burn, Caroline Bartels, Donald Laub, Cesare Passudetti, Jessica Rosokoff and Marsha Spyros, librarians who have participated in Poetry in The Branches, a program of the New York Public Library and Poets House. Poetry in The Branches was designed as a model for developing poetry audiences in local libraries.

Panel discussion and screening of excerpts from the PBS series The United States of Poetry, featuring Kay Cassell, Bob Holman, Martín Espada, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Poets and librarians gather to discuss methods to expand poetry audiences in libraries through collection development, programming and on-line technologies.